Mu'tazilah View of the Doctrinal Difference Among the Islamic Sects

Abstract

This research aims to study the view of Mu'tazilah on the doctrinal difference which exists among the Islamic sects, the ruling on this difference, and the ruling on the opponent. The research was divided into an introduction and three chapters. The first dealt with the Mu'tazilah's fundamentals of religion. The second was about the duty assigned to Mu'tazilah. The third was the rule of the offending beholder. The research concluded that Mu'tazilites were strict in their principles, which they made the foundations of religion. They obligated everyone to know them in a way that leads to certainty and definitiveness. Because knowledge, according to them, can only be obtained through rational consideration, they also enjoined it based on the rule “Should a duty not be fulfilled except by a matter, that matter becomes a duty.” This resulted in a difference in the rule of the imitating normal person, which led most of them to atoning. The situation did not differ with regard to the violator, whose disagreement was based on consideration, inference and interpretation.